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A brilliant day at the PSS Members' Conference in London earlier this week!

We have been proud partners of Port Skills and Safety for a number of years now, supporting their events and working together to raise the standard of safety and investigation practice across the port sector.

The Members' Conference is always a highlight in the calendar, a room full of people who truly care about making ports safer, sharing what works and what doesn't.

On top of a great day, COMET and Forth Ports were voted Best Members' Collaboration by those in attendance 🏆

Learn more about how COMET and PSS work together here 👉 https://www.cometanalysis.com/pss-exclusive-support

We have been wanting to have this conversation for a while, and on the 14th of July it's finally happening! 👇️

Is AI actually preventing incidents, or just adding to the noise? It is the question every EHS team is weighing up right now, and our CEO Mark Rushton is joining Zain Idris, Industry Analyst at Verdantix, and Shama Kassam, Product Manager at Intelex, for a live session on exactly that.

🔹Where AI adoption in EHS actually stands today
🔹How AI-driven RCA is reducing repeat failures
🔹How leading teams turn near-miss data into preventive action

Details: July 14th | 10:00 ET | 15:00 BST | One hour, live, with Q&A.

Save your spot: https://shorturl.at/Pce3H

The UK water sector has made real progress on safety over the past decade. Better monitoring, stronger reporting processes, and safety cultures that look truly different to where they were twenty years ago.

But there's an opportunity the sector hasn't fully taken yet, and it starts with how incidents are investigated.

Many investigations end with human error listed as the cause, but we believe it should be the starting point.

Our latest blog explores why:

🔎 "Human error" as a finding tells you almost nothing useful about preventing the next event
👤 The conditions that make errors likely are where the real investigation work starts
⚙️ The water sector's operational environment makes human and organisational factors especially worth examining
📊 Consistent, structured investigation builds a data asset that reveals patterns no single investigation could

Read the full article 👉

Every serious incident investigation ends with the same implicit promise. We looked at what happened, we understood why, and now we have taken action to prevent it from happening again.

But that promise depends on human understanding, not a report.

As AI takes on more of the analytical work in investigation, it's worth asking whether that understanding is still being built in the people who need it most.

Our CTO, Arrash Nekonam, has written about how AI should and shouldn't be used in incident investigation, and what organisations need to ask before they start investing.

👉 www.cometanalysis.com/news/when-ai-does-the-thinking-who-learns-the-lesson